Qualitative Study On Content Of Cancer Patients’ Deliberate Rumination

The1980s and the1990s, Tedeschi and Calhoun start to research the positive impact of people from the negative event, and first put forward the term "posttraumatic growth", in addition, the posttraumatic growth was defined as the experience of significant positive change arising from the struggle with a major life crisis. After extensive research, Tedeschi and Calhoun found that the deliberate rumination play an important role in posttraumatic growth process. Deliberate rumination, with positive and active and other characteristics, is the struggle thought that individuals around the traumatic events. This struggle thought to contribute to the trauma of individuals to change the cognitive schema, to find meaning, found that the benefits and establish new goals, to think deeply about the meaning of life, and ultimately reproduce the narrative development, complete mental reconstruction.In the psychoanalysis perspective, deliberate rumination is a process that individuals from the opposition to unity, and build a balanced and harmonious process. In this process, individuals continued to experience and acceptance, give full play to the self strength and potential to obtain the conversion of the soul at the bottom of the energy, resulting in the growth of posttrauma. Cancer as a traumatic event, it will change the psychological state and life patterns of cancer patients. The course of treatment, most patients will experience a longer period of psychological reconstruction process. The research of the content of cancer patients’deliberate rumination has important meaning for promoting the quality of life in patients. This thesis attempts to study the extent of cancer patients’deliberate rumination in qualitative view, which not only enriches the research of posttraumatic growth, also provides advice for cancer patients reconstruction according to the results of related studies.In this study,21cancer patients’deliberate rumination content around the cancer diseases was collected, by the method of semi-structures in-depth interviews. Analyzing the collecting materials through grouded Theory and coding by QSR Nvivo8.0anylysis software. The results show that the content of cancer patients’deliberate rumination include confront their illness, to accept the disease and then to appreciate the disease, it reflects a process that cancer patients with the disease is gradually from the opposition to the uniform, leading to the mental and body balance and harmony.There are three stages in cancer patients get along with the disease, from the initial face disease, to understand and accept the disease, and concluded by thanking the disease to bring their own newborn. After further analysis of the cancer patients’deliberate rumination, the researchers concluded the following aspects:l.to adjust the cognitive system is in favor of the reconstruction and growth of the cancer patients;2.to set up the new self-perception is the outcome of the cancer patients struggle with the disease;3.A Sense of responsibility and sense of value is survive pillars of cancer patients;4."Good deeds and to love" is a breakthrough in spiritual growth of cancer patients;5.There is a constructive meaning that cancer patients rebuild their lives and narrative process;6.The process of cancer patients’deliberate rumination was frorm oppsition to unified.This study analysis and interpretation the deliberate rumination when cancer patients experience the trauma of the cancer disease by qualitative research methods, and it get a micro-psychological phenomenon that can not be found in quantitative research.This study not only rich and expanded research on posttraumatic growth at home and abroad,also provide advice for psychological intervention of cancer pantients in the practice.